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Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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we work in, they have to come from another city or<br />

another country to come help us look for property.<br />

But it's an issue that everybody deals with that's<br />

in my business.<br />

Inconsistent property rights, there are<br />

some countries you can't own property. You know,<br />

and just political realities, changing world events.<br />

Those are just things that we deal with every day.<br />

But luckily, as I said before, we've got a<br />

great team. We have some incredible real estate<br />

people on staff. We have some <strong>of</strong> the best technical<br />

expertise that you could imagine within OBO to help<br />

work on all <strong>of</strong> these issues. We've got great staff<br />

at a lot <strong>of</strong> these embassies that help make this<br />

happen. And despite inconsistencies, a lot <strong>of</strong> our<br />

services providers are just incredible in terms <strong>of</strong><br />

what they can do and they help a lot.<br />

But that's an update on what they're doing<br />

and a taste <strong>of</strong> some <strong>of</strong> what we deal with every day.<br />

GENERAL WILLIAMS: Okay, thank you, Keith.<br />

We're going to move on to Clare and Regan.<br />

MS. ARCHER: General Williams, Steve, and<br />

Keith and fellow panel members, on behalf <strong>of</strong> AGC, I<br />

just want to thank you for allowing us to<br />

participate in the dialogue today. We think it's<br />

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